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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2007
Michael J. M. Toksvig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Justin M. Mahan, Fremont, CA (US);
Edward A. Hutchins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Tyson J. Bergland, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James T. Battle, Austin, TX (US);
Ashok Srinivasan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael J. M. Toksvig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Justin M. Mahan, Fremont, CA (US);
Edward A. Hutchins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Tyson J. Bergland, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James T. Battle, Austin, TX (US);
Ashok Srinivasan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an instruction mapping table, which includes a plurality of instruction counts and a plurality of instruction pointers each corresponding with one of the instruction counts. Each instruction pointer identifies a next instruction for execution. Further, each instruction count specifies a number of instructions to execute beginning with the next instruction. The apparatus also has a data operation unit adapted to receive a data group and adapted to execute on the received data group the number of instructions specified by a current instruction count of the instruction mapping table beginning with the next instruction identified by a current instruction pointer of the instruction mapping table before proceeding with another data group.